[A. Pole]

Te implication is that Europe imprisons the "right" amount of people. Maybe Europe is 1/12 as effective at protecting society from criminals.....

Read my tagline. There is a critical mass when the prison industry becomes so big that cannot be controlled.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"There is a critical mass when the prison industry becomes so big that cannot be controlled."

Right. You and this crackpot author think the reason there is no justice (sic) in America is because Part the private prison industry requires huge quantities of inmates to fuel the profits of investors. What a load of bologna! The private prison industry was created to deal with the huge number of criminals that we needed to lock up in order to protect the law abiding amongst us from the predatory criminals. It worked too.